Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (F.A.B.C.)

International Meeting of Bishops’ Conferences

Also known as: 亞洲主教團協會 (正體中文)

Members: Bishops’ Conference of Central Asia
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh (C.B.C.B.)
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (C.B.C.I.)
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei (B.C.M.S.B.)
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Myanmar (M.C.B.C.)
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Thailand
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (C.B.C.P.)
Chinese Regional Bishops’ Conference
Conférence Episcopale du Laos et du Cambodge
Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (C.C.B.I.)
Conferência Episcopal Timorense
Hội Đông Giám Mục Việt Nam
Konferensi Waligereja Indonesia (K.W.I.)
Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (P.C.B.C.)
Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church
Synod of the Syro-Malankarese Church
Diocese of Hong Kong 香港 (Hong Kong) (Associate Member)
Diocese of Macau 澳門 (Macau) (Associate Member)
Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal (Nepal) (Associate Member)

Countries: Afghanistan , Azerbaijan , Bangladesh , Brunei , Cambodia , Hong Kong , India , Indonesia , Japan , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Laos , Macau , Malaysia , Mongolia , Myanmar , Nepal , North Korea , Pakistan , Philippines , Singapore , South Korea , Sri Lanka , Taiwan , Tajikistan , Thailand , Timor-Leste , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , Vietnam

Address: FABC Central Secretariat, 4/F Holy Cross Centre, 72 Yiu Hing Road, Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong

Phone: +852 39041121

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Present Officials

President (2024.02.22 [2025.01.01] – ...):

Cardinal Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão (71)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via

Patriarch of East Indies

Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa and Daman (India)

President of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India

Vice-President (2024.02.22 [2025.01.01] – ...):

Bishop Pablo Virgilio Siongco David (65)

Bishop of Kalookan (Philippines)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (C.B.C.P.)

Secretary General (2021.07.22 – ...):

Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi (タルチシオ菊地功), S.V.D. (65)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tokyo 東京 (Japan)

President of Caritas Internationalis

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan

Past Officials

President: Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B. (75) (2018.11.16 – 2025.01.01)
President: Cardinal Oswald Gracias (79) (2011.10.21 – 2019.01.01)
President: Archbishop Orlando Beltran Quevedo, O.M.I. (85) (later Cardinal) (2005 – 2011.10.21)
President: Archbishop Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis (2000 – 2005)
President: Archbishop Oscar Valero Cruz (1993 – 2000)
President: Archbishop Henry Sebastian D’Souza (1984 – 1993)
President: Archbishop Mariano Gaviola y Garcés (1977 – 1984)
President: Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (김수환 스테파노 / 金壽宦) (1973 – 1977)
Vice-President: Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don (76) (2018.11.16 – 2025.01.01)
Secretary General: Bishop Stephen Lee Bun-sang (李斌生) (67) (2019.01 – 2021.07.22)
Secretary General: Fr. Raymond Leslie O’Toole, S.F.M. (2005.11.18 – 2019.01.05)
Secretary General: Fr. Edward F. Malone, M.M. (1972 – 2004)

Last updated on 2024.04.06

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